UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL
Whether you’re tacking your first sportive or riding across a continent, The Mental Cyclist will help you crush your cycling goals. You’ll learn to:
- Transform your mindset and approach to cycling
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Rekindle your love for your sport
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Develop the mental toughness to overcome obstacles and push past your limits
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Become an expert in yourself
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Make your mind work for you, not against you
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Do anything you want to do on your bike
COURSE + COACHING + COMMUNITY

MIND TRAINING FOR CYCLISTS
our powerful online course for smashing every goal and loving every ride
video lessons
20 accessible videos to follow over 12 weeks or at your own pace
PERSONAL exercises
30 reflective journal exercises to develop deep self-awareness
CHALLENGE tracker
Track your mental preparation as you prepare for a challenge
CLUB TMC COMMUNITY
Lifetime free membership of our brilliant community
why should I take the course?
Because Mental Cycling is way more than a marginal gain. By developing deep self-awareness, you will:
- Overcome mental obstacles that hold you back from your cycling goals
- Improve your mental and physical performance on the bike
- Develop a positive and powerful mindset
- Build greater self-confidence and self-awareness
- Achieve your cycling goals faster and more easily
- Enjoy a more fulfilling and rewarding relationship with your cycling
- Connect with like-minded cyclists in a supportive community
- Access proven strategies and techniques for success
- Make lasting positive changes to your mindset and approach to cycling
change your mind. change your ride.

stage video course
mind training videos
self-development exercises
week challenge tracker
DAY COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP
UPGRADE YOUR BRAIN, NOT YOUR BIKE
STAGE-BY-STAGE DETAILS
STAGE 1
SUPERCHARGE YOUR SELF-ESTEEM
Unless you’re a world champion, you’ll always encounter people who are fitter, faster, slimmer, stronger, smarter or sexier than you. Which is why it’s time to stop comparing yourself to anybody else and work on your own self-esteem.
- Learn how to stop your critical mental voice obsessing over negative comparisons
- Understand when your defence mechanisms are helpful – and when they’re not
- Enjoy the significant benefits of improved self-esteem
STAGE 2
SUSTAIN YOUR SUPERPOWER
Willpower is what you call on to make you do something you don’t want to do. The more you don’t want to do something, the more willpower you need. It can get you through just about anything… until, of course, it doesn’t. Let’s find out why.
- We all have a persuasive inner voice that offers lovely alternatives to what we should be doing. Meet yours
- Willpower is powerful but it has an Achilles heel – doubt
- Discover the four essential weapons for bolstering your willpower
- Enjoy the significant benefits of improved self-esteem
STAGE 3
MAXIMISE YOUR MOTIVATION
When you have to do something tough, willpower sometimes wins. And sometimes it doesn’t. Is sometimes enough? We don’t think so. There’s a smarter way to get things done. Here’s where you discover what really motivates you – and what really doesn’t.
- Understand the key differences between immediate gratification and longer term rewards – and how they make you fly
- Learn how to align your intrinsic and extrinsic motivators for maximum gains
- Explore your personal physiological, psychological and experiential goals
STAGE 4
APPRECIATE THE AWESOME
Discover which kind of cyclist you are under the Lycra, er, skin. Obviously you love riding your bike, but you love it even more when you’re riding for a reason. So what motivates you more – a happy day in the saddle, or stunning stats?
- Professional athletes don’t cycle for fun. But you can, and you should
- Understand the problems with performance goals, and why they can make you miserable
- A chance to chat with fellow Mental Cyclists sharing this journey
STAGE 5
SQUASH THE SELF-CRITICISM
Come to face with your Cruel Critic. We all have one. It’s the voice inside your head that assures you that you’re crap. Too slow, too weak, too fat, too unfit, too whatever… You wouldn’t take it from a friend – and you don’t have to take it from yourself.
- Understand how, when and why your Cruel Critic tried to bring you down
- Recognise your personal triggers for negative self-talk – and how this affects you
- Overcome your Cruel Critic with affirmations, mantras, and mindfulness
STAGE 6
BIN LIMITING BELIEFS
Some people believe they’re smarter, stronger, sexier, funnier or cooler than they actually are. You’re not one of them. Your limiting beliefs hold you back – on your bike and in life. And your Cruel Critic just loves to reinforce them.
- Understand the difference between knowledge and belief – and why it’s so important
- Identify and tackle your limiting beliefs head on. You’ll find that many are untrue, and others don’t matter
- Mental Cycling is about can, not can’t. Learn to flip your thinking to overcome any barrier
STAGE 7
SHAKE OFF THE STRESS
Stress in cycling sucks. It makes you tense and miserable, and sucks the joy out of everything. But here’s the secret. Cycling doesn’t need to be stressful. The trick is understanding why you suffer stress – and knowing what to do about it.
- Understand why ‘stress’ isn’t the problem. It’s our emotional reaction to stress-inducing situations that causes problems – if we let it
- Retrain your brain to control the way you react to potential stressors.
- Learn to avoid thinking in terms of good and bad, success and failure, triumph and disaster
STAGE 8
THWART THE THREATS
A challenge is something you can overcome, like training a wayward puppy not to pee o the floor. A threat is something you probably can’t, like persuading a hungry bear to return your chicken supper. It’s really important not to confuse the two.
- Positive thinking is an ally that can push you forwards – so long as it’s not just wishful thinking
- Why achievement goals are much more motivating than avoidance goals
- Pushing beyond your comfort zone improves mental and physical performance – so long as the challenge is just right for you
STAGE 9
DESIGN YOUR DEFENCES
Unless you’re a world champion, you’ll always encounter people who are fitter, faster, slimmer, stronger, smarter or sexier than you. Which is why it’s time to stop comparing yourself to anybody else and work on your own self-esteem.
- Develop smart IF/THEN strategies for every eventuality
- Swap anxiety for strategy
- Learn how to choose your effort and design your attitude
STAGE 10
FIND YOUR FLOW
If your mind is somewhere else when you ride – if it’s focused on the destination, or a time target, or anything else other than what’s happening right now – then you won’t have a meaningful and enjoyable experience. But when you ride mindfully, every ride can be amazing.
- Understand why arbitrary targets can suck the joy out of everything
- Lose your attachment to outcomes
- Find the magical balance between the right level of challenge and your ability to do it
STAGE 11
ESCALATE YOUR EXPERTISE
Mental Cycling is about getting to know yourself better. A really powerful way to do that is by analysing your rides – what happened, how did you feel, what did you learn, what can you change, and so on. In this stage, you’ll write a reflective ride report and share it with a buddy in the group.
- Learn how to write a structured ride report
- Submit your report to the group for peer review
- Review a buddy’s ride report and share your learnings
STAGE 12
COMMIT TO THE CHALLENGE
In this final stage, you’ll take everything you’ve learned on your journey as a Mental Cyclist and use it to design and commit to the most amazing, exhilarating, life-changing challenge of your life! It might be might be nailing KOMs in the Pyrenees, riding 100 miles for the first time, commuting to work, or racing around the world. Whatever it turns out to be, it will be exactly the right challenge for you!
- Explore the difference between DO goals (what you want to do) and BE goals (how you want to feel)
- Enjoy a visualisation exercise that helps you free your imagination and design the cyclist you really want to be
- Decide upon your Mental Cycling Challenge – and commit to it 100%